We’re all looking forward to traveling again, visiting places, eating great food. In the meantime though while we wait for COVID to abate let’s do some homework. Next time you’re visiting Italy, and it’s lunch or dinner time and you’re craving for a superb pasta dish, don’t order spaghetti bolognese. If you do the waiter will frown and look at you sideways, totally lost. That’s because spaghetti bolognese doesn’t exist in Italy. One of the major mistakes tourists make when they travel to Italy and set food in one of the hundreds of pasta establishments that dot the boot is order it without even reading the menu. Feeling all smug and happy that they know the name of at least one iconic Italian dish, they’re taken aback by the waiter’s speechless reaction. After frowning and curling his lip in contempt the waiter would inquiry further as to what it is they exactly want and once he'd have framed a vague idea, would serve them Tagliatelle al ragù - not spaghetti bolognese - and attempt to teach them the proper name. Tagliatelle are flat handmade egg dough spaghetti. Ragù is fat-less beef belly pieces mixed with celery, carrots, onions, tomato sauce and red wine. The dish is sprinkled with a layer of grated Parmigiano Reggiano - not parmesan, which is counterfeit Parmigiano sold worldwide. Tagliatelle al ragù are a signature, traditional recipe hailing from the Emilia Romagna region but there are variants all over Italy depending on what kind of pasta and sauce is used. In Rome locals add fettuccine, similar to tagliatelle, and the ragù is often made with wild boar. According to several Emilia Romagna chefs, spaghetti bolognese is a fake name invented by foreigners when they first started flocking in the 1960’s to the Riviera Adriatica and the main city of Bologna, hence the adjective ‘bolognese’. The fake twisted name was the result of gorging on lots of Tagliatelle al ragù and simply falling in love with the mouthwatering plate. So the next step was that anywhere they'd go, tourists would automatically order spaghetti bolognese even if they were in Puglia or Sardinia. But that mistake actually turned Tagliatelle al ragù into one of Italy’s staple foods, renown worldwide. A symbol of Italian cuisine.
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